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Tim Ferriss describes how you can learn lifelong skills, and along the way fundamentally change the way you think about food, in four hours.

Big Think’s online course, “Great big Ideas,” was produced in partnership with The Jack Parker Corporation.

Neil deGrasse Tyson says “the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.”

On a finance panel at The Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas held on Nantucket, Massachusetts in October, Larry Summers tackled the question of whether teutonic monetary virtue or monetary […]

At The Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas held on Nantucket, Massachusetts in October, a panel comprised of finance heavyweights debated the big issues facing the economy, most notably the […]

Does President Obama need to learn to speak Republican? He probably will if he wants to be successful in a second term (if elected). Furthermore, you can become a better […]

Grover Norquist stands to be a major player in the debate over how to face the upcoming fiscal cliff.

Professor Larry Lessig presents his plan to end cronyism in Washington at The Nantucket Project, a festival of idea on Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Mark Ruffalo, Co-founder of Water Defense, adresses The Nantucket Project along with Mark Jacobson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and Marco Krapels, co-chairman of Rabobank’s corporate […]

Why should you bother to wake up tomorrow knowing that we’re all going to die billions and billions of years from now when the universe turns to absolute zero, when […]

What is collective intelligence? Experts such as Matt Ridley weigh in on the mating of ideas and what it means for our future human prosperity.

Nature didn’t give us any tools to control our emotions. That is why psychologist Paul Ekman says you need to keep a diary of your emotions, writing what you are […]

In this first dispatch from Beijing for his new blog on Big Think, artist and political activist Ai Weiwei explains the powerful effects of social media on political freedom in […]

Today students graduate from college in the U.S. with a mountain of debt and a skill set deficit that leaves them unprepared for the challenges of succeeding in today’s knowledge […]

Throughout human history people have tried to create utopia, the perfect society. These dreams have not been realized because we have scarcity. However, now we have nanotechnology, and with nanotechnology, […]

Companies need to be social to be successful. This is a key insight in Maddie Grant’s book Humanize: How People-Centric Organizations Succeed in a Social World, which argues that the […]